Producing on paper imitations of tapestry or embroidery.



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ATENT EUGENE o'onannr,

OF PARIS, FRANCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,321, dated February 13, 1900.

Application filed August 4, 1397.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, EUGENE COURBET, of 3 Rue Ternaux, in the city of Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Art of Producing on Paper Printed lmitations of Tapestry or Embroidery, of which the following is a specification, and for which a patent has been obtained in France, No. 252,453, dated December 12, 1895.

Beyond the printing upon Woven fabrics imi tations of tapestry and embroidery have heretofore always been produced or attempted by making use of the papers usually employed in printing, and it has been solely by printing processes that any attempt has been made to effect the reproduction of the appearance and the texture of the tapestry or embroidered fabrics, sometimes by means of printed lines and sometimes by scoring, to imitate the threads. The imitation has consequently always been very clumsy, for the papers obtained have had neither the appearance (more or less soft and velvety) nor the feeling of the fabric and, in short, did not really produce any illusion, such as is completely effected both to the touch and to the sight by the new product obtained by my invention.

I obtain the desired result by employing for the printing in fatty inks of the design to be reproduced the special paper which is known under the different names of velveted or fiock paper, woolly paper, 850., and which is characterized by the layer of fluff-that is to say, of.wool or other fiber in powderwhich covers one of its surfaces. By printing on this special paper by the ordinary process of lithographic printing I obtain a product which will really have the appearance and the feel of tapestry or embroidered fabrics and not at all resembling any printed paper heretofore known, since the surface which is visible and exposed to the touch is constituted, in fact, not by the paper itself, but by the layer of fluff which covers it-that is to say, by a material analogous to that which forms the surface of tapestry or embroidered fabrics. It would, however, be impossible to effect impressions in fatty Serial No. 647,034. (Specimens) covers the paper would certainly become detached in the course of the operations necessitated by this kind of printing, either because it would remain stuck to the inked parts of the plate or it would be torn away by the action of the press. It has therefore been found necessary before printing to so prepare the paper to receive the impression or impressions in fatty ink that it will not be damaged by the printing operation. This preparation consists in covering, by means of a brush, roller, or any suitable means, the whole of the flocked surface of the paper with a mixture of an ordinary linseed-oil varnish of commerce and any suitable drier. When the paper has been thus treated, it can receive impressions in fatty inks without the fluff becoming detached. Further, this preparation serves to make the inks take and to render them siccative. It is evident, further, that instead of fixing the layer of fluff by the preparation described just precedent to the time of printing this may be done in the course of the manufacture of the paper itself.

The fatty inks which I use for the printing are the black and colored inks commonly used in lithographic printing, in which the vehicle for the black or color is linseed-oil, and the printing is performed in the same way as ordinary lithographic printing.

The impressions that I obtain by my process faithfully reproduce all the artistic effects of real tapestry and embroidery upon canvas and other woven fabrics. They present to the eye and to the touch the same sensation as the true fabrics.

It will be understood that the product of my process is susceptible of a variety of applications. Thus it maybe employed for the reproduction of old or modern tapestry, the execution of panel-hangings, the decoration of boards or plaques of all kinds, the manufacture of fans, the direct reproduction of paintings, the.

What I claim as my invention is- The improvement in the art of producing printed imitations of tapestry and embroidery consistingin first preparing Whatis known In witness whereof I have hereunto set my as flocked paper by applying to its flocked hand in the presence of two subscribing Witsurface a mixture of linseed-oil varnish and I nesses. a drier and afterward printing upon the so-' EUGENE COURBET.

5 prepared flocked surface with colored fatty inks by means of the usual lithographic proc- Witnesses:

EDWARD P. 1\.[ACLEAN,

ess, substantially as herein described. 1 ALCIDE FARE 

